Uniportal VATS approach for treatment of empyema: Challenges and recommendations

Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg. 2018 Nov 21:2018. doi: 10.1510/mmcts.2018.058.

Abstract

The uniportal VATS approach is now taking the lead in the practice of thoracic surgery and is transforming the way we operate. We describe here how to perform a uniportal VATS debridement and decortication, with a special focus on tips and tricks for getting inside an empyema pouch and identifying the optimal plane of cleavage for decortication.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Debridement / methods*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pleura / surgery*
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Pulmonary Emphysema / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Emphysema / surgery*
  • Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / methods*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography